I was taking part in Junction Hackathon that was held in Helsinki from 6-8th of November. The event was amazing and brought together talented people from all around the world. For me, it was a good excuse to do something interesting and work together with some of my friends. It is amazing what you can do in only two days...

Working for a startup is not the same as working for a large company. The deadlines are sooner and therefore the design needs to be adjusted to those specific needs. What kind of adjustments are needed and what are the rules you need to follow when working in a startup. Read the post to find out.

Designers such as Naoto Fukasawa, Ross Lovegrove, Philippe Starck managed to create strong personal brands. How they did it? Is it a matter of pure luck or they are just brilliant? The answer is no and no. It is a process that can be tought. There are couple of simple steps that you should follow to become a design star. It is that easy!

Nokia came to Aalto to get ideas and prototypes on the topic: "Music on the go". My amazing colleagues Mu and Riina and I, worked on a speaker that shuffles music from different phones making a joint playlist for parties, cafes, buses and every other place where many people listen to music together.

Noticed was a university communication platform that united all the sources of information students have at the uni and restructured them into the topics like: parties, jobs, workshops... This way, students can at once look at all the partied at the uni for this Friday and not be restricted by department or the social group. This was a stratup that was initiated by Rahul Abishek and me and later Sergio and Palash joined us.

Audi Project is a product development project done between Aalto and Stanford University. The topic was interior of an autonomous vehicle for the year 2025. It took eight months of heavy labour for us to get to the results that were praised by both Audi personnel and also other visitors at annual exhibition at Stanford University in June 2013.